DOVER — Outside of UNO Chicago Grill, children were hopping alongside the Easter Bunny, collecting candy-filled eggs on Saturday morning.At 10:30 a.m. sharp, the children rushed into the UNO parking lot and raced to find as many eggs as they could.

“We let them loose, and they went crazy,” said Mike Blanchette, father of 7-year-old Gracie Blanchette, of Dover.

After the egg hunt, Gracie was excited that she got a golden egg in her basket.

“I love seeing them running around, gathering,” said Gracie’s mother, Amie Blanchette, who came to the event with her three children and two nieces.

Andrea Ackerly, of Milton, said the start of the egg hunt reminded her of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the part in the movie in which the children rush into Willy Wonka’s factory with excitement for chocolate.

Inside UNO, children took turns taking pictures with the Easter Bunny.

At one table inside the restaurant, 7-year-old Cooper Brewer, of Dover, was looking through the candy he had collected, and trading eggs with his sister, Delaney Brewer, and his cousin, Solei Coyle. Delaney and Solei were giving Cooper eggs shaped like Darth Vader, from Star Wars, while Cooper was giving the girls eggs shaped like snails and butterflies.